Legal Opinion

Hargis v. Pearce & Son

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 28, 1870PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Case 38 —APPEAL-BOND APPEAL FROM ROWAN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 1Bush, 223, Walters V. Patrick. Civil Code, section 753. CITED Civil Code, sections 847-852. 2 Duvall, 77, Adams v. Settles. 3 Bush, 94, Manier v. Lindsay.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Robertson

The appellees having obtained a judgment in the Rowan Quarterly Court against the appellant, he appealed to the circuit court, and he and a surety signed their names to a blank paper, with authority to the clerk to write a proper appeal-bond above their signatures, which he failed to do. On the calling of the case in the circuit court, more than sixty days after the appeal, that court, on the motion of the appel*235lees, properly dismissed the appeal for want of a bond, and refused to permit the appellant either to fill up the blank paper as signed or to execute a new bond.

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2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Cox v. AllenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1920
  2. Newbold v. BoslerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1944
  3. Patterson v. Glover, Drainage CommissionerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1929

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